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The weakness of little children's limbs is innocent, not their souls.

St. Augustine

Confessions

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Topic

Original sin Human nature Children

Author

St. Augustine

Source

Confessions

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Latin

Time

400 400s 5th century

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 1

Original Citation

Augustine of Hippo. Confessiones [Confessions]. c. 398, bk. 1, ch. 7.

Current Citation

Augustine of Hippo. Confessions, translated by R. S. Pine-Coffin. Penguin Classics, 1961, bk. 1, ch. 7.

There are two types of laws: just and unjust. I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Letter from Birmingham Jail

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Civil disobedience Law Justice Legal theory Moral theory

Author

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Source

Letter from Birmingham Jail

Medium

Open letter Letter

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1963 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Letter from a Birmingham Jail." 16 Apr. 1963.

Current Citation

King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Letter from a Birmingham City Jail (1963)." A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches, edited by James M. Washington. HarperOne, 2003.

For we walk by faith, not by sight.

Apostle Paul

2nd Corinthians 5:7

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Topic

Faith

Author

Apostle Paul

Source

2nd Corinthians The Bible

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Greek

Time

56 50s 1st century

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 3

Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (2nd Corinthians 5:7).

Oh how quickly the glory of the world passes away!

Thomas à Kempis

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Sic transit gloria

Author

Thomas à Kempis

Source

The Imitation of Christ

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Latin

Time

1427 1420s 15th century

Era

Middle Ages

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

A Kempis, Thomas. De Imitatione Christi [The Imitation of Christ]. c. 1427.

Current Citation

A Kempis, Thomas. The Complete Imitation of Christ, translated by John Julian. Paraclete Press, 2012.

He said not "Thou shalt not be tempested, thou shall not be travailed, thou shalt not be diseased"; but he said, "Thou shalt not be overcome."

Julian of Norwich

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Topic

Adversity

Author

Julian of Norwich

Source

Revelations of Divine Love

Language

English

Time

1413 1410s 15th century

Era

Middle Ages

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Julian of Norwich. Revelations of Divine Love. London, c. 1670.

Current Citation

Julian of Norwich. Revelations of Divine Love, translated by Barry Windeatt. Oxford University Press, 2015, ch. 68.

Hear the other side.

St. Augustine

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Topic

Tolerance Listening Goodwill

Author

St. Augustine

Source

On Two Souls, Against the Manichaeans

Genre

Philosophical literature Religious literature

Statement Type

Advice

Language

Latin

Time

391 390s 4th century

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 1

Citation

St. Augustine of Hippo. De Duabus Animabus Contra Manichaeos. [Concerning Two Souls, Against the Manichaeans.] 391 AD.

He cannot have God for his father who has not the church for his mother.

St. Cyprian

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Topic

Catholic church God and man Christianity

Author

St. Cyprian

Source

On the Unity of the Catholic Church

Genre

Religious literature

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

Latin

Time

251 250s 3rd century

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Saint Cyprian. De Ecclesiae Catholicae Unitate. c. 251, ch. 6.

We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was "illegal."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Letter from Birmingham Jail

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Topic

Legality and morality

Author

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Source

Letter from Birmingham Jail

Medium

Open letter Letter

Language

English

Time

1963 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Letter from a Birmingham Jail." 16 Apr. 1963.

Current Citation

King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Letter from a Birmingham City Jail (1963)." A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches, edited by James M. Washington. HarperOne, 2003.

For man proposes, but God disposes.

Thomas à Kempis

The Imitation of Christ

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Topic

God's will Free will Making plans

Author

Thomas à Kempis

Source

The Imitation of Christ

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Latin

Time

1427 1420s 15th century

Era

Middle Ages

Authentication Score 1

Original Citation

A Kempis, Thomas. De Imitatione Christi [The Imitation of Christ]. c. 1427.

Current Citation

A Kempis, Thomas. The Complete Imitation of Christ, translated by John Julian. Paraclete Press, 2012.

The Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Councillor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Letter from Birmingham Jail

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Topic

Civil rights Political compromise American politics

Author

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Source

Letter from Birmingham Jail

Medium

Open letter Letter

Language

English

Time

1963 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Letter from a Birmingham Jail." 16 Apr. 1963.

Current Citation

King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Letter from a Birmingham City Jail (1963)." A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches, edited by James M. Washington. HarperOne, 2003.

They consider the deed but God weighs the motive.

Thomas à Kempis

The Imitation of Christ

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Topic

God and man Intent

Author

Thomas à Kempis

Source

The Imitation of Christ

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Latin

Time

1418 1410s 15th century

Era

Middle Ages

Authentication Score 0

Original Citation

A Kempis, Thomas. De Imitatione Christi [The Imitation of Christ]. c. 1418, bk. 2, ch. 6.

Current Citation

A Kempis, Thomas. The Complete Imitation of Christ, translated by John Julian. Paraclete Press, 2012.

If all evil were prevented, much good would be absent from the universe. A lion would cease to live, if there were no slaying of animals; and there would be no patience of martyrs if there were no tyrannical persecution.

St. Thomas Aquinas

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Topic

Problem of evil

Author

St. Thomas Aquinas

Source

Summa Theologicae

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Latin

Time

1265 1260s 13th century

Era

Middle Ages

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Saint Thomas Aquinus. Summa Theologica. c. 1274, pt. 1.

Current Citation

Saint Thomas Aquinus. The Summa Theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas, translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Provinc. Christian Classics, 1981, pt. 1.

No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.

St. Jerome

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Topic

Athletes Hard work

Author

St. Jerome

Medium

Letter

Language

Latin

Time

374 370s 4th century

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 1

Original Citation

Saint Jerome. Letter to Heliodorus. c. 374.

Current Citation

Saint Jerome. The Letters of Saint Jerome. Aeterna Press, 2016.

God is that, the greater than which cannot be conceived.

Saint Anselm

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Topic

Nature of God God

Author

Saint Anselm

Language

Latin

Time

1078 1070s 11th century

Era

Middle Ages

Authentication Score 1

Original Citation

Saint Anselm. Proslogium [Proslogion]. c. 1078, ch. 3.

Current Citation

Saint Anselm. "Proslogion." Anselm of Canterbury: The Major Works, edited by Brian Davies and G. R. Evans. Oxford University Press, 2008, ch. 3.

The Lord never tires of forgiving. It is we who tire of asking for forgiveness.

Pope Francis

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Topic

Asking for forgiveness Forgiveness of sins Forgiveness

Speaker

Pope Francis

Source

Catholic News Agency

Medium

Sermon

Language

Italian

Time

2014 2010s 21st century

Authentication Score 0

Citation

Pope Francis. "God Never Tires of Forgiving Us, Pope Reflects." Catholic News Agency, 28 Mar. 2014. www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/god-never-tires-of-forgiving-us-pope-reflects. Originally a mass meeting. 28 Mar. 2014, St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City, Rome, Italy.

It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.

Tertullian

Ad Scapulam

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Topic

Freedom of religion Religion

Author

Tertullian

Source

Ad Scapulam

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Latin

Time

217 210s 3rd century

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Tertullian. Ad Scapulam [To Scapula]. c. 217, ch. 2.

Too late I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Too late I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself and there I searched for you.

St. Augustine

Confessions

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Topic

Loving God God and man Religious conversion

Author

St. Augustine

Source

Confessions

Genre

Religious literature

Statement Type

Profession of love

Language

Latin

Time

400 400s 5th century

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 1

Original Citation

Augustine of Hippo. Confessiones [Confessions]. c. 398, bk. 10, ch. 27.

Current Citation

Augustine of Hippo. Confessions, translated by R. S. Pine-Coffin. Penguin Classics, 1961, bk. 10, ch. 27.

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. Indeed, it is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Topic

Nonviolence Activism

Author

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Medium

Nobel Prize Lecture Speech

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

English

Time

1964 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Nobel Lecture." Les Prix Nobel en 1964. [The Nobel Peace Prize 1964.] 11 Dec. 1964, Auditorium of the University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.

Truth does not blush.

Tertullian

Against the Valentinians

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Topic

Truth

Author

Tertullian

Source

Against the Valentinians

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Latin

Time

207 200s 3rd century

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Tertullian. Adversus Valentinianos [Against the Valentinians]. c. 207 CE, sect. 3.

I have freed my soul.

Bernard of Clairvaux

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Topic

Speaking up Telling the truth

Author

Bernard of Clairvaux

Source

Letters of Bernard of Clairvaux

Medium

Letter

Language

Latin

Time

1152 1150s 12th century

Era

Middle Ages

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Bernard of Clairvaux. "Letter CVI: To Magister Henry Murdach." Epistles. n.d., no. CCCLXXI.

Current Citation

Bernard of Clairvaux. "Letter CVI: To Magister Henry Murdach." The Letters of Bernard Clairvaux, translated by Bruno Scott James. Liturgical Press, 2003.